Columbia Basin Herald offers full online edition

MOSES LAKE - Have you found yourself suffering from withdrawals of your Columbia Basin Herald?

Maybe you were wanting to read the full version of newspaper, but were away from home?

Now you can have the newspaper at your fingertips electronically with a new Internet subscription service. 

The full electronic version is posted online the same day the print edition is available to readers.

For subscribers, the service is free and can be accessed with their subscriber number. If you don't know your subscriber number, call the circulation department at 509-765-8882.

Nonsubscribers can sign up online by visiting www.columbiabasinherald.com and click on "full edition" to sign up 

The "free edition" tab brings readers to some top stories posted one day later online, but not the full edition.

In more than two weeks, 24 people have signed up for online subscriptions and six new print subscribers were added, explained Kody Johnson, the Columbia Basin Herald's manager of Internet business development. 

As a result, the paper's website is experiencing 11 percent more traffic as compared to last year.

"We've set records for daily visits in March for nine days in a row," Johnson commented. "Every single month we've set either a daily or weekly record. It's starting to catch on."

He also attributed the increase to the paper's new website design. 

Also, the Herald's online information is easier to reach from multiple locations, Johnson said.

For more information, contact Johnson at 509-765-4561, ex. 147.